Get the full unit via our website: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-explanation-5-lesson-unit-life-cycles-12330576 Includes Lesson plan and Worksheets WALT • Read and follow a text about the life cycle of a plant. • Know what a glossary is. This long lesson links to the topic of plants and how they grow by introducing the children to a variety of seeds. It may be preferable to spread the lesson over two sessions, using the Glossary activities on the second day. Children will complete an investigative study, which will form the basis upon which they will learn how to read and compose explanatory texts. Leave a review

Taken from our Year 2 Literacy Resource File The focus is on following and producing explanatory texts. This unit is closely linked to the curriculum area of science and life cycles of plants. Children begin with an investigation into the seeds of various plants. This is followed by a reading phase about the life cycles of some of these plants. The children then link the texts with the appropriate diagrams and pull out some of the key language to help them make a glossary and understand how to write explanatory texts. Children are given the opportunity to look at more examples of explanatory texts before they begin the investigative study which they will finally write about. In groups, children follow instructions to grow potatoes. At each stage they are encouraged to observe and record the process and the results. They are encouraged to keep a diary of the investigation and to evaluate their own work as they go. At the end of the investigation, they are asked to review the process and finally to produce a presentation about the life cycle of the potato 1 What is it? • To promote interest in the topic. • To follow the stages in an explanatory text about the life cycle of a plant. • To understand what a glossary is. 2 Explanation language and features • To focus on the form and organisational features of explanatory texts. • To widen the concept of what topics explanatory texts deal with. 3 Let’s grow potatoes • To initiate an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To read, understand and follow instructions. 4 Our potatoes• To conclude an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To work collaboratively to produce a paragraph describing the end result of an investigation. • To share information 5 Presentations• To produce an explanatory text/ presentation. • To produce a suitable visual explanation of a process. • To use labels as an aid to visuals. Leave a review

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: Ants The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

1 lesson with resources, flipbook and worksheet Lesson: Shadow-Land Learning objectives Children should learn: • that light travels in straight lines • that shadows are cast by objects which obstruct light • that the Sun casts shadows which change as each day progresses Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • explain what causes shadows • explain why shadows cast by sunlight move and change shape and size during a day Task:The activity sheet has the cut-out parts for making a sundial. The children can mark on the dial the position of the shadow cast by the raised part at different times on the next sunny day. It will work better if you stick the sundial onto a card base

A review of the topic of forces Taken from LCP Science Resource Files KS2 Learning objectives Children learn/revise: • that pushes and pulls are examples of forces; • that forces are needed to start and stop things and to change their speed and/or direction; • that friction,including air resistance,is a measure of force; • that forces have direction and that they can be measured using a forcemeter; • that the standard unit for measuring force is the newton. Learning outcomes Children: • revisit work on forces from previous years/units. Purpose of the lesson:to review the topic of forces.(This is a quick run-through,to reacquaint the children with the subject,and it is not necessary to go into depth. Comes with lesson plan and worksheets Leave a review

Push Me,Pull You Reviewing the effects of pushes and pulls on the movement and shape of objects Learning objectives Children learn: • that pushes and pulls are examples of forces; • that pushes and pulls can cause objects to move,to stop,to change shape. Learning outcomes Children: • describe what they did using words such astwist,squeeze, stretch,pull out and classify actions as pushes or pulls,e.g.stretching is a pull,squeezing is a push. One lesson plan with worksheets Leave a review

Lesson Objective: to explore the effect of magnets on each other and on certain materials. Learning objectives Children learn: • that there are forces between magnets; • that magnets can attract and repel each other,and that ‘attract’ means pull towards and ‘repel’ means push away; • that some metals are attracted to magnets,and that other materials are not; • that magnets have many practical uses. Learning outcomes Children: • given a magnet of unfamiliar shape,or with unlabelled ends, demonstrate how it is attracted to,or repelled by,another magnet; • generalise about what happens when magnets are put near one another or together,using scientific terms,e.g.attract,repel; • classify a range of materials, including metals as magnetic or non-magnetic,and explain how their work enabled them to do this; • make a generalisation about magnetic behaviour,e.g.iron is magnetic but other metals are not; materials that are not metals are not magnetic;only some metals are magnetic. Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 5 Animals includes links to DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Science. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave us a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 4 Transport includes links to Science, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Maths. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave us a review

The LCP Science Homework Activities are divided into three sections: Biological processes, Materials and Physical processes. There are 22 homework sheets in each section. There is also a teacher’s answer section, which provides answers to questions posed on the homework sheets and suggests the sort of responses you can expect from children. The LCP Science Homework Activities contain 66 colourful, printable homework sheets which give your children the opportunity to practise scientific skills, encourage their curiosity and improve their understanding of science. Each homework activity sheet is divided into two parts. The first part provides an opportunity for children to consolidate scientific skills, such as predicting, planning, observing, analysing data through tables and graphs, drawing conclusions and evaluating. The second part of each sheet consists of practical challenges. Some are quick while others can take place over a few days. The challenges are varied, to suit different learning styles. They are also designed to be fun, in order to develop curiosity and inspire children to think and work like scientists. Because learning is always best shared, it is a good idea for children to carry out the challenges as a group; this could be with classmates or at home with a responsible adult. This download is packed with homework sheets featuring written activities and practical challenges – all supported by a teacher’s answer section that suggests the sort of responses you should expect. All of the homework sheets are in Microsoft® Word. Answers included! Leave us a review.